national supercomputing mission

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched three PARAM Rudra Supercomputers to enhance India's research capabilities in fields such as physics and earth science. The initiative also includes establishing 10,000 Atal Tinkering Labs in schools and increasing scholarships for STEM subjects to encourage scientific temperament among students. A Rs 1 lakh crore research fund was announced in this year's budget.

India's scientific infrastructure is reaching a new phase with the inauguration of the PARAM SHAKTI supercomputing facility at IIT Madras. Featuring the indigenous Param Rudra system, this development signifies a move towards scale, sovereignty, and scientific ambition, enabling faster research across diverse fields and strengthening India's innovation ecosystem.

In the 1980s, denied supercomputer access by the US and Europe, India embarked on a mission to develop its own. Led by Vijay Bhatkar, a team of Indian scientists created PARAM 8000 in 1991, a cost-effective supercomputer that rivaled American technology. Its success led to exports and spurred India's ongoing national supercomputing mission. Read more about the journey of creating the first Indian supercomputer below!

IIT Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn) on Monday commissioned Param Ananta, a supercomputer under national supercomputing mission. The system has 838 teraflops (TF) supercomputing System is powered with 7400 CPU cores, 52TB RAM, 1PiB of Storage space, and an enormous power of GPU nodes.

IIT-Patna has proudly unveiled Bihar's inaugural Param Rudra supercomputer, a major leap forward in the national supercomputing mission. This cutting-edge resource is set to inspire and support students, faculty, and researchers as they tackle diverse computing challenges, paving the way for groundbreaking innovations in the region and strengthening India's standing in supercomputing technology.

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing that built India's first supercomputer, Param, is handling the project. The government had, in March 2015, approved the plan of the national supercomputing mission, under which 80 supercomputers will be built in the next seven years.

IIT-Kanpur and five other institutions have been short-listed by the Union government where advance supercomputers would be installed this year under the first phase of national supercomputing mission (NSM).

The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur is set to receive a supercomputing facility that is several times faster than normal computers. The facility will have a capacity of 1 Peta Flop — significantly higher than the regular system — and help to usher in a new age of super-fast research and innovation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually launched three PARAM Rudra supercomputers along with an ₹850 crore High-Performance Computing system designed for weather and climate research. These supercomputers are located in Pune, Delhi, and Kolkata to support scientific research in fields such as astronomy, medicine, and high-energy physics. This move signifies a step towards India's self-reliance in computing technology.

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The Indian Institute of Technology-Patna (IIT-P) will get a PARAM supercomputer of 833 TF (Tera Flops) HPC (high-performance computing) systems by September this year. It will be the first supercomputer in Bihar.

The Indian Institute of Technology-Patna (IIT-P) is set to receive its first supercomputer, a PARAM system of 833 TF under the national supercomputing mission, which will be installed on the Bihta campus by September 2021. The infrastructure for the supercomputer will be based on Rudra server, which is indigenously manufactured in India, in line with the "Aatma Nirbhar Bharat" initiative.